Category: Editorials

In June 2000, a coroner’s inquest was launched into an 87-vehicle pileup (60 cars, 27 trucks) on Highway 401 near Windsor that killed eight people the previous fall. The strip of four-lane highway between Windsor and Chatham was nicknamed “Carnage Alley” after crashes on the highway killed 28 people in six months.

Feeling overworked? Need another holiday? Well, relief may be on the way. In case you haven’t heard, many Canadians are calling for, and even petitioning for, a national holiday honouring our country’s highest political leaders.

Public spaces and privacy don’t mix

I find it hypocritical of your newspaper to rail against surveillance cameras to be installed at City Hall that may partially cover the Human Rights monument on Elgin St. in your Dec. 7 editorial by Corinne Smith.

Your position is that the cameras would constitute an invasion of privacy for people protesting or gathering at the monument. read more

The City of Ottawa’s $150,000 security plan, calling for 15 surveillance cameras in and around city hall by the end of December, has community groups scrambling to mount a legal challenge before it’s too late.